Quotes about Perception
No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
— Epictetus
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
— George Eliot
There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.
— GK Chesterton
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
A man is known by the company he keeps.
— Aesop
Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
— Albert Einstein
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
— DH Lawrence
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
— Elbert Hubbard
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
— GK Chesterton
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
— Henry David Thoreau
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
— Henry David Thoreau